Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach

This Common Secret, by Susan Wicklund

Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

A Brief History of Anxiety, by Patricia Pearson

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make it into the New Testament, by Bart D. Ehrman

And, like 6 different vegetarian cookbooks

Periodically I will start doing these “snapshots” to keep myself honest: a list of what is currently checked out on my library card.  I have been cheating and reading non-fiction concurrently with my classics project, pretty much all along.  I habitually fall prey to cool book covers and interesting dust jacket intros.  

The following is what I currently have checked out of the library.  I am actively reading at least five of the books right now for some reason.  I keep switching between them like I have multiple personalities.

Amigurumi animals: 15 patterns and dozens of techniques for creating cute crochet creatures (p.s. I don’t know how to crochet)

Wild nights!: stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway (Joyce Carol Oates)

The solitary vice: against reading (Mikita Brottman)

Nerds: who they are and why we need more of them (David Anderegg)

Letter to a Christian Nation (Sam Harris)

Amulet. Book 1 (Kazu Kibuishi)

Vegetarian bistro: 250 authentic French regional recipes (Marlena Spieler)

Tess of the D’Ubervilles (Thomas Hardy)

The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

Around the world in 80 days (Jules Verne)

The 4-hour workweek (Timothy Ferriss)

(CD) The very best of Aretha Franklin

(CD) The flying club cup / Beirut

(CD) Never mind the bollocks, here’s the Sex Pistols

(CD) If you can believe your eyes & ears / the Mamas & the Papas